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Culture Podcast

Popular culture, poetry, music and visual arts and the roles they play in our society.

Updated: occasionally

Episodes available: indefinitely

Maths and Storytelling

Thu 30 Sep 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines whether it is possible to apply mathematical logic to literature.
Truth, Lies and Fiction

Thu 15 Jul 1999

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether it matters if memoirs aren鈥檛 entirely truthful.
Capitalism

Thu 24 Jun 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the history of capitalism from Marx to the collapse of Communism.
The Monarchy

Thu 10 Jun 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the enduring strengths and current role of the British monarchy.
Memory and Culture

Thu 27 May 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines how our collective and individual ways of remembering have changed.
Multiculturalism

Thu 13 May 1999

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 20th century鈥檚 vast population and cultural shifts.
Writing and Political Oppression

Thu 8 Apr 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines whether writers have a political role in modern society.
Architecture in the 20th Century

Thu 25 Mar 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines what the architecture of the 20th century says about the age.
Shakespeare and Literary Criticism

Thu 4 Mar 1999

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enduring popular and academic appeal of Shakespeare.
The Avant Garde's Decline and Fall in the 20th Century

Thu 25 Feb 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the history and legacy of 20th Century Avant Garde painting.
Language and the Mind

Thu 11 Feb 1999

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss whether the formation of language is innate or cultural.
Modern Culture

Thu 21 Jan 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the definition and state of modern culture in the 20th century.
Feminism

Thu 7 Jan 1999

Melvyn Bragg examines the development of the empowerment of women in the 20th century.
The American Century

Thu 17 Dec 1998

Melvyn Bragg examines how legitimate it is to call the 20th century the American century.
Cultural Rights in the 20th Century

Thu 10 Dec 1998

Melvyn Bragg examines what impact globalisation has had on human rights.
Work in the 20th Century

Thu 26 Nov 1998

Melvyn Bragg examines the changing ideas about the function of work in the 20th century.
The City in the 20th Century

Thu 12 Nov 1998

Melvyn Bragg looks at the innovative developments of the city in the 20th century.